Yazhini ManimudiEver wondered why your perfumes don’t last long enough? It could be that your skin is dry. Well hydrated and moisturized skin is better at holding on to perfume and slowing down evaporation. A lot of lotions come with their own fragrant ingredients, changing what the perfume smells like.
Matching lotions moisturize and make your fragrance more powerful and longer lasting. But they also add to the fragrance experience. As the formulations for perfumes vary vastly from lotions and creams, similar notes can highlight different facets of the same formula, giving you a more complex experience of the same fragrance.
You can use unscented lotions. But why not make your fragrance routine more fun by using a matching lotion?
Chanel Coco Mademoiselle
Key accords: citrus, white floral, sweet, patchouli
Feminine
Coco Mademoiselle is a bold feminine fragrance with a woody, earthy, vetiver-patchouli base and citrusy opening. It’s made lovely and strong with the addition of beautiful white flowers like orange blossom and jasmine. The perfume is quite long lasting, but you can make it last longer by prepping your skin with the Coco Mademoiselle lotion. Chanel sells a 200ml lotion of the same fragrance. You can either buy it separately or in a set including the 50ml perfume bottle. If you want to expand your routine, you can also try the hair perfume, body oil, and soap of the same scent.
Yves Saint Laurent Libre EdP
Key accords: white floral, lavender, citrus
Feminine
This is another bold and feminine fragrance, but with a heavier share of white florals. It reminds me of the sophisticated womanly fragrances from the early 2000s, but it doesn’t feel dated in any way, even now. YSL makes a Libre body balm with the nourishing properties of shea butter, vitamin-rich sweet almond oil, and soothing verbena. If you like Libre but find it too strong, you could go with just the body balm in summer for a less intense fragrance. I’ve seen the body balm sold separately but also in a gift set.
Kylie Cosmetics Cosmic
Key accords: floral, amber, musk
Feminine
This fragrance surprised me. Keeping up with current trends, it’s a musky vanilla. I like the ambery floral with peonies and jasmine. Nothing groundbreaking but plainly good. I guess I’m not above liking celebrity perfumes. It’s light and sweet, but not very long-lasting. You can make it last longer by pairing it with the 75 ml tube of body lotion. I have only seen the lotion sold along with the perfume, but if you have been able to buy it on its own, let me know…
Givenchy Irresistible
Key accords: rose, musk, fruity
Feminine
The rose perfume opens with a watery bright pear coupled with the musky abrette seed note. It’s a clean rose that dries down to a comforting skin scent with woody undertones. You can pair it with the matching body milk. It’s available in a smaller tube if both as a set with the perfume or as a 200ml bottle when purchased on its own.
Lancôme Idôle
Key accords: rose, musk, fruity, sweet
Feminine
With Zendaya as the face of the fragrance, of course there’s a matching scented body cream so you can be moisturized and unbothered. It smells so romantic and sweet and can be used everyday in summer and spring. It’s a pretty standard girly fragrance but very pretty and not too youthful or mature. It’s something I feel most people would like. The body cream is found packaged with the perfume in beautiful gift sets around the holidays. But you can get the bigger 200ml pump bottle anytime for the same beautiful fragrance you love in the perfume.
Yves Saint Laurent Y
Key accords: fresh, spicy, aromatic
Masculine
The boys shouldn’t be left out of having good skin. Freshies have a reputation for drifting away in just a few hours. Men can pair the green, aromatic, woody goodness of this fragrance with the aftershave lotion on the days they need to soothe their skin. Wearing them together can create a multifaceted and enhanced fragrance experience. It is sometimes available in a set that also includes a matching body wash.
Narciso Rodriguez All of Me
Key accords: rose, musk, powdery, woody
Feminine
Narciso Rodriguez ha released a new floral flanker of this perfume. The original, released in 2023, also has a scented body lotion with the same delicate rosy fragrance. The lotion captures the beautiful freshness of magnolia and aromatic rosy facets of bourbon geranium really well. Plenty of other popular perfumes from this brand also come in body lotions for an enhanced fragrance experience.
Yazhini Manimudi
